Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Credits -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600-1700 -- Documents -- A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New-York to Another, Concerning the Troubles which happen'd in That Province in the Time of the late Happy Revolution, 1698 -- The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676 -- Edward Winslow, "Chapter 7," Good Newes from New England, 1624 -- Peter Schaghen to the Directors of the West India Company, 1626 -- Richard Frethorne to His Father and Mother, March 20, April 2 and 3, 1623 -- Powhatan [Wahunsonacock] to John Smith, 1609 -- Reverend Samuel Smith to Ichabod Smith, January 1698/99 -- Declaration or Confession of [Roger] Court Crotosse, 1684 -- "Whereas Hugh Gwyn …," July 9, 1640 -- John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 -- Petition of Jewish Merchants, January 1655 -- The Case of Maria Negro, 1681 -- Declaration Against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon, 1676 -- An Act Defining the Status of Mulatto Bastards, December 1662 -- Petition of Richard Saltonstall, 1645 -- The Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of Flushing, Long Island, Against the Law Against Quakers and Subsequent Proceedings, January 1, 1658 -- William Bradford Describes His Encounter with Samoset, 1621 -- Rev. Johannes Megapolensis to the Classis of Amsterdam, March 18, 1655 -- Statement Showing Wherein Capt. Daniel Brodhead Has Exceeded the Instruction Given by the Honorable Richard Nicols, Governor General, April 25, 1667 -- Petition of Marylanders, November 20, 1690 and the Response to the Petition by John Coode and Kenelm Cheseldine, December 22, 1690 -- Benjamin Tompson, New England's Crisis, 1676 -- Vincent Bigot's Report, "Of the Piety and Devotion of the Christian Iroquois," 1677.

Testimony of Marmaduke Stevenson, 1659 -- Chapter 2. Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788 -- Documents -- Indian Women of Cabo San Lucas, c. 1746 -- Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, 1749 -- The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, c. 1800 -- Journal of Nicolas Collin, 1746-183 1: Extract of the Most Noteworthy Transactions During My Incumbency as Rector at the Raccoon and Pensneck Congregations, from September 30, 1773 -- Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt, Written by Himself: Excerpts, 1806 -- Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744 -- List of Different Nations and Tribes of Indians, Early 1700s -- J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, "What Is an American?" 1783 -- Miami Deaths of 1732, Report of Jean-Charles d'Arnaud, 1732 -- The Independent Reflector, William Livingston on Kings College, 1753 -- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia," 1783 -- "A Gouging Match" -- "A Backwoods Ball and Fight," c. 1780s -- Rev. Alexander Stewart to Rev. John Waring, 1764 -- Rev. Samuel Auchmuty to Rev. John Waring, 1761 -- Abigail Franks to Naphtali Franks, June 7, 1743 -- Daniel Horsmanden, The New York Conspiracy, 1741 -- Chapter 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789-1836 -- Documents -- Sarah Cary to Samuel Cary, July 1792 -- Timothy Pickering to Anthony Wayne, April 8, 1795 -- Constitution of The New-York Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries, 1794 -- The Naturalization of Immigrants, 1795 -- Edward Livingston, "Against the Alien Act," 1798 -- Red Jacket, "Against White Missions Among the Indians," 1805 -- United German Benefit Society, By-Laws of the United German Benefit Society: Agreed upon at Various Meetings, 1799.

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, March 2, 1807 -- Margaret Van Horn Dwight, A Journey to Ohio in 1810 -- Petition of the Trustees of the Congregation of Shearith Israel, 1811 -- William Sampson, "The Catholic Question in America, Disclosing the Secrets of Auricular Confession," 1813 -- Paul Cuffe, Memorial Petition to Congress, 1813 -- John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, 1818 -- John Doyle to His Wife, January 25, 1818 -- The Shamrock Friendly Association, 1818 -- Hezekiah Niles, "Editorial," August 8, 1818 -- Jesse Torrey, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, 1816 -- Stockbridge, Maine, 1818 -- By a Lady, Catherine Brown, the Converted Cherokee, 1819 -- Anonymous, Clear and Concise Statement of New-York and the Surrounding Country, 1819 -- Pennsylvania General Assembly, Resolutions Relative to Preventing the Introduction of Slavery into New States, 1819 -- Catherine Sedgwick, Journal, June 1821 -- Travels by Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Through North America, 1825, 1826 -- William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, January 1, 1831 -- Mathew Carey, Letters on the Colonization Society, 1832 -- Burning of Ursaline Convent, 1834 -- Samuel F. B. Morse, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, 1834 -- Andrew Jackson, "Removal of Southern Indians to Indian Territory," December 7, 1835 -- George Templeton Strong, "Mass at St. Patrick's," 1836 -- William L. Stone, The True History of Maria Monk, October 8, 1836 -- Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877 -- Documents -- Martin Weitz, Rockville, Connecticut, to His Relatives in Schotten, Vogelsberg, Germany, July 29, 1855 -- Angela Heck, New York, New York, to Her Relatives in Irrel, Trier, Germany, October 26, 1862 -- German Society in Chicago, Annual Report, 1857-1858.

August Spies, Autobiography, 1886 -- John O'Sullivan, "Annexation," 1845 -- Mary Anne Sadlier, Bessy Conway or, The Irish Girl in America, 1861 -- John Francis Maguire, The Irish in America, 1868 -- Dennis Kearney, "History of the American Working Classes," 1878 -- Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California, 1862 -- Colonel Albert S. Evans, "A Cruise on the Barbary Coast," 1873 -- The Chinese-Facts for Atlantic Papers, 1874 -- The Page Law, 1875 -- Richard Henry Dana, "California and Its Inhabitants," 1840 -- Antoinio María Osio, "The History of Alta California," 1851 -- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as Ratified by the United States and Mexican Governments, 1848 -- Juan Seguin, "Personal Memoirs," 1858 -- Juan Cortina Rebellion in the 1850s -- Solomon Northup, Slave Auction, 1853 -- Harriet Jacobs, A Slave's Account, 1861 -- From James Henry Gooding to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863 -- Letter from Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863 -- Black Code of St. Landry's Parish, Louisiana, 1865 -- From Jourdon Anderson to Colonel P. H. Anderson, August 7, 1865 -- Elias Hill, Testimony Before the Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 -- Little Bear, "The Sand Creek Massacre," 1864 -- Herrero, "The Navajo Long Walk," 1860s -- Wooden Leg, The Battle Against Custer, 1876 -- Old Lady Horse, The Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1882 -- Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878-1900 -- Documents -- "The Life Story of a Negro Peon," 1904 -- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 -- Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors," 1892 -- "A Colored Complaint," 1883 -- Booker T. Washington, "Atlanta Compromise," September 18, 1895 -- W. E. B. Du Bois, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," 1903.

Standing Bear, Protest, 1879 -- Field Matron's Job Description, 1892 -- "Omaha Discuss Allotment," 1881 -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 1903 -- "Kiansis I," c. 1870 -- In re Rodriguez, 1897 -- Leong Shee, Testimony, April 18, 1893 -- An Agreement Paper by the Person Mee Yung, 1875 -- Chinese in Napa Asylum, 1912 -- Robert Ferrari, Autobiography, 1950 -- Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890 -- "Immigration Restriction," 1896 -- Queen Liliuokalani Defends Her Kingdom, 1893 -- Lorrin A. Thurston, A Handbook on the Annexation of Hawaii, 1897 -- Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," 1899 -- Bruce Grit, "Why Talk of the White Man's Burden?" 1899 -- William Jennings Bryan, Savannah Interview, December 13, 1898 -- Emilio Aguinaldo, Proclamation to the Philippine People, February 5, 1899 -- "Consent of the Governed," 1900 -- "Mark Twain's Salutation to the Century," 1900 -- Chapter 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929 -- Documents -- "The South and Mr. Roosevelt," 1901 -- "Immigration," from Mr. Dooley, 1902 -- W. E. B. Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," 1903 -- Gernimo, Gernimo: His Own Story, 1906 -- Leonard Covello, The Heart Is the Teacher, 1958 -- George Kennan, "The Japanese in the San Francisco Public Schools," 1907 -- Theodore Roosevelt to Philander Knox, February 8, 1909 -- Letters to Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), 1909 -- Theodora Kroeber, "Outside the Slaughter House," 1961 -- Horace M. Kallen, "Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot," 1915 -- Wartime Memos to Hugo Munsterberg, 1914-1916 -- W. E. B. Du Bois, "Close Ranks," July 1918 -- "Returning Soldiers," May 1919 -- Marcus Garvey, "National Anthem of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League," 1918 -- Willa Cather, My Ántonia, 1918 -- W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, 1927.

The Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1922.